Quotes About Spirituality

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It's like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, "I am.

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."—A. Einstein

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are 'together' in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sharing a common state together. That state exists in you and it exists in me.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.